Take a look back at news and photos that occurred 25, 50, and 100 years ago on July 4th.
25 YEARS AGO
Monday – July 4, 1994
50 YEARS AGO
Friday – July 4, 1969
The Fourth means a lot to many.
On the eve of the holiday, reporter Jim Hook stopped people and asked, What does American freedom mean to you?
Rose Spyker, Chambersburg “Doing what I am doing now. Going to the store when I want to. Going home when I want to. Going to church where I want to. I guess it sounds corny. It is everyday things I take for granted.”
Frank Adolini, Fayetteville “It’s something to fight for. Everything is free over here. When you get over there, you realize it is free over here.” (Adolini World War II veteran spent 21/2 years in a German prison camp.)
Jenny Botchie, 16, Fayetteville “It means the freedom to make your own choices about what you are going to do with your own life and to be responsible for your choices.”
Tony Harrison, Chambersburg “Everybody’s equal. The same laws apply to each individual citizen. You have the same access to financial and public organizations. That is what I think it is in a nutshell.”
100 Years Ago:
Friday – July 4, 1919
“MISSION SCHOOL TO CELEBRATE FOURTH; TO PLAY BASEBALL”
Chambersburg –Last evening at 6:45 Dr. H. F. Lafamme, former secretary of the Missionary Educational Movement, now identified with the inter-church world movement, spoke on that subject in the auditorium.
Mrs. George Hooper Ferris had charge of the vesper service under the oak tree at 8:15.
Today the regular Conference program will be carried out in the morning and the afternoon will be given up to celebrating- the Fourth with baseball, games, swimming meets, and other sports.
There will be a picnic lunch for the delegates in the court during the evening and after that a fellowship sing and vesper service.
The delegates will be glad to have the town people join them. In their afternoon sports.
